Event Title
MA06 - Strathroy Stories
Location
VAB-SVAD Faculty Hallway
Start Date
3-11-2017 4:45 PM
Description
"Growing up in Strathroy was like growing up anywhere else. Drinking beer, fishing, murder, suicide, drinking beer." Strathroy Stories is an immersive, spatialized sound piece that explores ideas of space and place through a series of adolescent and teenage memories of people, places, and events. This work examines the notion of memory as a dynamic, malleable construct that falls somewhere between archival and living narrative. Guided by the memories of a small-town boy, the listener will explore sites and events ranging from the prosaic; swimming at the town pool and hanging out at the arcade, to the aberrant; Turkey Festival murder and an ice fishing party gone wrong. Created as a locative listening piece, the end user is encouraged to listen, as they would a music playlist, while they walk to work, ride transit, clean the house, or walk their hedgehog. This piece is intended to enable a hybrid listening experience where the listener will be at times unable to distinguish real from virtual, thus creating a sort of schizophonic low-tech AR experience. Users will be asked to download a free mobile app (Minatures for Mobiles) that will enable them to listen to sound pieces as they navigate The University of Central Florida campus. This locative listening experience will allow conference attendees, and anyone who has downloaded the app, to experience Strathroy Stories that will be mapped to The University of Central Florida campus as an overlay of the town of Strathroy, Ontario.
MA06 - Strathroy Stories
VAB-SVAD Faculty Hallway
Strathroy Stories is an immersive, spatialized sound piece that explores ideas of space and place through a series of adolescent and teenage memories of people, places, and events. This work examines the notion of memory as a dynamic, malleable construct that falls somewhere between archival and living narrative.
